276 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Letter No. 2. C. Fortescue, Esq., to Sir W. J. Hooker. 



Downing Street, June 12th, 1857. 



Sir, — I am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to acknowledge 

 the receipt of your letter of the 14th ultimo, suggesting that a sum of 

 £300 should be granted by her Majesty's Government in aid of the 

 publication of a work to serve as a Flora of the West Indies, by Dr. 

 Grisebach. 



Mr. Labouchere has much pleasure in informing you, that the Lords 

 Commissioners of the Treasury have acceded to his recommendation 

 that a sum of £300 should be sanctioned for this service. 



I am to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a letter from the Lords 

 Commissioners, and to request that you will make any suggestions you 

 may have to offer as to the payment of the money, and the superin- 

 tendence of the work. — I remain, etc., 



(Signed) C. Fortescue. 



Wilson, Esq., to H. Merivale 



Treasury Chambers, May 27, 1857. 



Sir,— Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's 

 Treasury your letter of the 20th instant, transmitting copy of a com- 

 munication from Sir William Hooker, in which he suggests' that a sum 

 of £300 should be granted by her Majesty's Government in aid of the 

 publication of a work to serve as a Flora of the West Indies, by Dr. 

 Grisebach, a botanist, whom Mr. Labouchere understands to be well 

 and favourably known to the scientific world. 



I am directed by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information 

 of Mr. Secretary Labouchere, that my Lords approve of a contribution, 

 on the part of the public, towards the expense of the proposed work, 

 of a sum of £300 ; and they will cause the requisite provision to be 



riments. 



Works 



Their Lordships request to be informed in what manner Mr. Labou- 

 chere would recommend this sum to be issued, and under whose super- 

 intendence it should be applied, to secure its being made available in 

 the most economical manner, in the publication of the work. 



I am, etc., 

 (Signed) James Wilson. 



